As adaptações cinematográficas como incentivo à leitura: um estudo a partir da obra Jogos Vorazes

Abstract

Reading is extremely important for the critical formation of the individual, with it, one can have a greater understanding of society, however, it is often not a taste practiced among people as the activity of going to the movies. However, film adaptations of books, especially books of mass literature, such as The Hunger Games, attract a large legion of people, from all over the world, to the cinema. In view of this, the following research aimed to analyze whether it was possible that the film adaptations of The Hunger Games can serve as an incentive for the formation of readers, as well as specific objectives that were punctuated in: a) understanding the reading practices of fans of the Hunger Games saga regarding dystopian literature. b) Investigate the extent to which works of mass literature help to encourage a taste for reading in young people. c) Analyze how the Hunger Games movies encourage reading among their fans. In its reference, the research sought to highlight points such as reading, mass and dystopian literature, The Hunger Games, cinema, cinematographic adaptations and historical references of the work. Thus, the research has a qualitative character of an exploratory nature, in which content analysis was used. Thus, for data collection, it was preferable to use the questionnaire, which was carried out through the Google Forms platform, therefore, for the analysis of the data, categories of analysis were made, evidenced in the content analysis. Therefore, in its entirety, the questionnaire received 34 responses from fans of the Hunger Games, who accepted to participate in the research, and it was observed that all of them were aged between 18 and 29 years, showing that they are part of the generation that was teenagers in period in which the saga was launched, and suffered the impact that this work had on young people at the time. Consequently, it was concluded that the film adaptations of The Hunger Games can indeed serve as an incentive for the formation of new readers, however, it is still necessary for people to be able to perceive the importance of mass literature as an incentive to reading, since most of young people, at the beginning of their reading training, can only be interested in it, thus, it is important to perceive its relevance. In short, the research managed to achieve the proposed objectives.